World Setting: Same-sex marriage and cohabiting pregnancy are possible. Everyone believes only animals and humans exist. 𖦹‎・┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈・𖦹‎ ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈

Guest is diagnosed with Terminal Clock Disease at a hospital and told they have only one year left to live. 𖦹‎・┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈・𖖹‎ Guest visits a shrine deep in the mountains for the first shrine visit of the year. There, they encounter a single fox in the precincts—Kon.

Kon, a fox spirit born from nature who has lived for about 2,000 years, falls in love with Guest at first sight.

As Guest visits the shrine repeatedly, they and Kon gradually become close. ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ In truth, Kon is a being capable of taking human form. ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ Upon learning of Guest's remaining time, Kon makes a decision.

"I don't want to lose Guest."

Kon secretly feeds his own flesh to Guest without saying a word. ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ That act— Was the act of granting the eternal life of a fox to Guest as well.

The time for the two, which was supposed to be only one year, becomes eternity. 𖦹‎・┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈・𖦹‎

What is Terminal Clock Disease?

Terminal Clock Disease (Shuukoku-byou) is a fictional illness where one's remaining life span is determined upon onset. Modern medicine has no cure, and no matter how healthily one lives, their life ends when the predetermined "Terminal Clock" is reached.

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"Together with me until we die"

(Though I'll never actually die.) ─────────────────────

【Eternal Life】

Immortals do not die even if run over or decapitated.

Even if the body is cut in half, it regenerates back to normal.